Data center · Facility
AnnouncedHydraVault data center in Chicago, Illinois
Announced Oct 28, 2025, in Cook County. No permit on record yet.
No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.
Where
- Reported capacity
- 20MW
- Planned, as Compute Atlas (Aug 31, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it. 76,000 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
- Work it brings
- Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
- The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
- Who bills here
- HydraVault
- The operator, per Compute Atlas, Server Country and EPA ECHO. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.
Nearest other build
Lambda Chicago EdgeConneX AI Factory
2.2 miles away
Builds in Cook County
Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.
Builds in Illinois
Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.
U.S. data center construction
August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.
What this means for you
Same customers, bigger invoices.
The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills HydraVault, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.
An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
Who your invoice goes to
- HydraVaultOperator
- General contractorNot named yet
- CarriersNot named yet
- UtilityNot named yet
Key facts
- Stage
- Under constructionCompute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Reported capacity
- 20 MWCompute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Reported building area
- 76,000 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Reported investment
- $2.7Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Announced
- Oct 28, 2025Compute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026
- Construction start reported
- Oct 28, 2025Compute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026
- Expected completion
- May 2027Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, IllinoisCompute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO · Sep 24, 2026
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Cooling
- Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026
- Facility type
- AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Incentives reported
- Illinois Data Center Investment Program (sales/use tax exemption MOU) (Illinois) $16.9MKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- EPA air permit
- No Classification In ICISEPA ECHO · Sep 24, 2026
- EPA compliance status
- No Violation IdentifiedEPA ECHO · Sep 24, 2026
What the public record lacks: the jobs, the general contractor's name and the utility.
Who's involved
- Operator
- HydraVaultCompute Atlas · Aug 31, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO · Sep 24, 2026
- General contractor
- Not named in a public record yet
- Carriers
- Appear here as the records name them
How far along it is
- · Compute Atlas
Reported as announced
- · Compute Atlas
Construction start reported
- · Kapwork's date
First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)
- · Server Country
Expected completion
- Date not reported · Server Country
Expected completion reported
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.
More builds
In Illinois
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- Aligned ORD-03Illinois
- CenterSquare ORD2 - 2425 Busse RoadIllinois
- CenterSquare ORD4 - 4513 Western AvenueIllinois
The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 41 published builds in Illinois, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.
Questions this page answers
Is HydraVault Chicago under construction?
Who is building HydraVault Chicago?
When is HydraVault Chicago expected to finish?
Which carriers serve HydraVault Chicago?
How do contractors on HydraVault Chicago get paid sooner?
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Sources, updates and data
Compute Atlas · Server Country · EPA ECHO · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30
Where this comes from
- Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)
Record hydravault-chicago-il · As of Aug 31, 2026 - HydraVault via PR Newswire (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Aug 31, 2026 - Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Aug 31, 2026 - Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0)
Record 0910 · As of Sep 24, 2026 - EPA Facility Registry (ECHO) record (US government, public domain)
Record 110072245625 · As of Sep 24, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)
Merged view of the sources here · snapshot Nov 2, 2026 - U.S. Census Bureau, Construction Spending (Value of Construction Put in Place, C30)
National data center spending · August 2026 · released Oct 1, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker
Counts, nearest build and first-seen dates (Kapwork's dates), published Nov 3, 2026. Tracker snapshot Nov 2, 2026; sources fetched: Compute Atlas Sep 24, 2026; Server Country Sep 24, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO Sep 24, 2026; Texas Comptroller Sep 24, 2026; UVA DC-SENSE Sep 24, 2026; Public Evidence Project Sep 24, 2026.
What each source reports
- Compute Atlas: Under construction, 20 MW
- Server Country: Under construction, 20 MW, as “HydraVault - Chicago AI Data Center”
- EPA ECHO: Operating, as “Hydravault LLC”
Updates
- Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
- May 2027: Expected completion. Server Country
- Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
- Oct 28, 2025: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
- Oct 28, 2025: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0) · US EPA Facility Registry Service via ECHO (public domain). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.
What we don't know yet
- The jobs, the general contractor's name and the utility.
- The carriers that serve the campus.
- How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.
Spot an error? Tell us
Cite: Kapwork Grow, “HydraVault Chicago”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/hydravault-chicago-il-dc_de9575a7b524, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.
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